Roberto García-Roa
@rgarciaroa.bsky.social
Scientist - MSCA researcher | Conservation photographer - ILCP | Storytelling for conservation | Based in Spain & Sweden 🌍🌎🌏
La bella Italia…
May 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
La bella Italia…
A great weekend gift: our piece on entomopathogenic fungi—some of them called “zombie fungi”—is now live on National Geographic!
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
The surprising real world uses of zombie fungi
Parasitic fungi have adapted to hijack some insects and nourish others. By learning their secrets, we may be able to use them to attack harmful pests.
www.nationalgeographic.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
A great weekend gift: our piece on entomopathogenic fungi—some of them called “zombie fungi”—is now live on National Geographic!
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
A crushed metal soda can, long emptied of fizz, now drips with life. From its mouth, a lush community of mosses spills out—as if nature had found a new way to pour itself into the world…
May 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A crushed metal soda can, long emptied of fizz, now drips with life. From its mouth, a lush community of mosses spills out—as if nature had found a new way to pour itself into the world…
A couple of weeks ago, I had to make a quick trip to Valencia. As part of that visit, I took an even briefer detour to Paiporta—one of the areas hardest hit by the Dana in October 2024 in Spain. I was shocked by the quiet resilience of the place. There was one of those silences that says everything.
May 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A couple of weeks ago, I had to make a quick trip to Valencia. As part of that visit, I took an even briefer detour to Paiporta—one of the areas hardest hit by the Dana in October 2024 in Spain. I was shocked by the quiet resilience of the place. There was one of those silences that says everything.
Without a doubt, one of the emotions that impacts me the most when photographing my projects is the loneliness of animals that, in one way or another, have been torn from their natural environment. Java, Indonesia.
April 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Without a doubt, one of the emotions that impacts me the most when photographing my projects is the loneliness of animals that, in one way or another, have been torn from their natural environment. Java, Indonesia.
Ape Action Africa, Cameroon.
March 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Ape Action Africa, Cameroon.
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🪳 “Es en la supervivencia del medio natural donde radica nuestro propio futuro”
Entrevista a Roberto García-Roa, doctor en Biología, investigador científico y fotógrafo de conservación e historia natural.
✍️ @juliacussomelero.bsky.social
👁️👇🏽
sondainternacional.com/proyectos/es...
Entrevista a Roberto García-Roa, doctor en Biología, investigador científico y fotógrafo de conservación e historia natural.
✍️ @juliacussomelero.bsky.social
👁️👇🏽
sondainternacional.com/proyectos/es...
"Es en la supervivencia del medio natural donde radica nuestro propio futuro" - SONDA Internacional
Todo el mundo le decía que eran “bichos feos”, pero Roberto García-Roa ha sentido desde pequeño fascinación por aquellos grupos de animales que sufren un estigma por parte del gran público. Se doctoró...
sondainternacional.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:28 AM
🪳 “Es en la supervivencia del medio natural donde radica nuestro propio futuro”
Entrevista a Roberto García-Roa, doctor en Biología, investigador científico y fotógrafo de conservación e historia natural.
✍️ @juliacussomelero.bsky.social
👁️👇🏽
sondainternacional.com/proyectos/es...
Entrevista a Roberto García-Roa, doctor en Biología, investigador científico y fotógrafo de conservación e historia natural.
✍️ @juliacussomelero.bsky.social
👁️👇🏽
sondainternacional.com/proyectos/es...
I miss the jungle!
March 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I miss the jungle!
Una lectura entre líneas.
March 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Una lectura entre líneas.
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Clases terminadas hoy, mañana en "Biología Evolutiva" @universidadoviedo.bsky.social tendremos el lujo de contar con @rgarciaroa.bsky.social que nos hablará sobre sus trabajos en selección sexual, su carrera y su trabajo de comunicación científica a través de la fotografía.
www.robertogarciaroa.com
www.robertogarciaroa.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Clases terminadas hoy, mañana en "Biología Evolutiva" @universidadoviedo.bsky.social tendremos el lujo de contar con @rgarciaroa.bsky.social que nos hablará sobre sus trabajos en selección sexual, su carrera y su trabajo de comunicación científica a través de la fotografía.
www.robertogarciaroa.com
www.robertogarciaroa.com
Fuerza o fortaleza.
January 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Fuerza o fortaleza.
Mañanas de niebla en los bosques de Madrid.
January 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Mañanas de niebla en los bosques de Madrid.
Reposted by Roberto García-Roa
‼️ 10.457 personas han muerto en su intento de migrar a España en 2024, el año más mortífero
www.eldiario.es/desalambre/1...
www.eldiario.es/desalambre/1...
10.457 personas han muerto en su intento de migrar a España en 2024, el año más mortífero
Según el recuento de la organización Caminando Fronteras, 30 personas han muerto cada día tratando de llegar a las costas españolas. De las víctimas, 1.538 eran menores y 421 eran mujeres.
www.eldiario.es
December 26, 2024 at 7:07 AM
‼️ 10.457 personas han muerto en su intento de migrar a España en 2024, el año más mortífero
www.eldiario.es/desalambre/1...
www.eldiario.es/desalambre/1...
Sorry, but I’m very jealous of this guy...
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), the only living (nonhuman) primate in Europe.
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), the only living (nonhuman) primate in Europe.
December 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Sorry, but I’m very jealous of this guy...
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), the only living (nonhuman) primate in Europe.
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), the only living (nonhuman) primate in Europe.
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Twenty big cats, including a half-Bengal tiger and four cougars, died at a sanctuary in Washington State after becoming infected with bird flu, according to the facility’s director. “We’ve never had anything like it.”
20 Big Cats Die From Bird Flu at a Washington Sanctuary
More than half of the cats at the sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., died of the virus over the past several weeks.
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Twenty big cats, including a half-Bengal tiger and four cougars, died at a sanctuary in Washington State after becoming infected with bird flu, according to the facility’s director. “We’ve never had anything like it.”
It's not an ant dangling from its legs in the forest of Cameroon. What you're looking at is a bug (fam. Hemiptera) that cloaks its body with materials from its surroundings-sand, lichens…-creating a perfect disguise.
The result is an insect's nightmare: a predator that looks like a piece of earth!
The result is an insect's nightmare: a predator that looks like a piece of earth!
December 23, 2024 at 10:33 PM
It's not an ant dangling from its legs in the forest of Cameroon. What you're looking at is a bug (fam. Hemiptera) that cloaks its body with materials from its surroundings-sand, lichens…-creating a perfect disguise.
The result is an insect's nightmare: a predator that looks like a piece of earth!
The result is an insect's nightmare: a predator that looks like a piece of earth!
How does our presence shape the lives of other beings? Sometimes in ways we would never imagine. What you see here is the lizard Podarcis pityusensis, an endemic species from the Balearic Islands (Spain), recently listed as Critically Endangered.(1/2)
December 21, 2024 at 1:10 PM
How does our presence shape the lives of other beings? Sometimes in ways we would never imagine. What you see here is the lizard Podarcis pityusensis, an endemic species from the Balearic Islands (Spain), recently listed as Critically Endangered.(1/2)
Reposted by Roberto García-Roa
Scientists:
Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal.
Link to the letter here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Link to sign can be found therein.
Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap.
Thanks!
Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal.
Link to the letter here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Link to sign can be found therein.
Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap.
Thanks!
EU post elections should revive the Green Deal 27.9.2024
Scientists urge EU policymakers to reinstate the Green Deal Laura Bosco1, E.R. Jasper Wubs2, Guy Pe’er3,4, Kris Decleer5, Marie Vandewalle3, Stephen Venn6, Volker Mauerhofer7, Róbert Gallé8, Vasilik...
docs.google.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Scientists:
Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal.
Link to the letter here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Link to sign can be found therein.
Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap.
Thanks!
Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal.
Link to the letter here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Link to sign can be found therein.
Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap.
Thanks!
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Our Perspective article, in which Jon Evans @1jonevans.bsky.social and I discuss the utility of bringing together the fields of evolutionary biology and assisted reproduction, is out in PNAS Nexus: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Applying an evolutionary perspective to assisted reproductive technologies
Abstract. Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are commonly used to address human infertility and to boost livestock production. During ART, procedures
doi.org
December 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Our Perspective article, in which Jon Evans @1jonevans.bsky.social and I discuss the utility of bringing together the fields of evolutionary biology and assisted reproduction, is out in PNAS Nexus: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Reposted by Roberto García-Roa
Carta abierta en respuesta a las recientes declaraciones anti-evolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja.
Carta completa: drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...
Carta completa: drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...
December 10, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Carta abierta en respuesta a las recientes declaraciones anti-evolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja.
Carta completa: drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...
Carta completa: drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...
Amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on the planet, with one in three species facing serious conservation issues. This situation requires urgent action to avoid losing fascinating species such as the horned frog Pelobatrachus nasutus, a species whose populations are in decline.
December 11, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on the planet, with one in three species facing serious conservation issues. This situation requires urgent action to avoid losing fascinating species such as the horned frog Pelobatrachus nasutus, a species whose populations are in decline.
Cuatro días. Como la DANA. Cuatro días.
ÚLTIMA HORA | Trabajo crea un permiso pagado de hasta cuatro días para catástrofes climáticas
Este nuevo derecho laboral para situaciones como la DANA permitirá faltar al trabajo con el 100% del salario, junto con otras medidas aprobadas 👇
www.eldiario.es/economia/tra...
Este nuevo derecho laboral para situaciones como la DANA permitirá faltar al trabajo con el 100% del salario, junto con otras medidas aprobadas 👇
www.eldiario.es/economia/tra...
November 28, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Cuatro días. Como la DANA. Cuatro días.
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Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio
theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl...
(and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl...
(and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action
Research on Chernobyl frogs has shown that the ionising radiation caused by the accident triggered a process of natural selection among these animals.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio
theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl...
(and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl...
(and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
Reposted by Roberto García-Roa
El agua se lo llevó todo. Quienes sobrevivieron a la riada en Valencia han quedado marcados por el recuerdo. Reportaje colectivo sobre las personas supervivientes de la #dana #Valencia en @sondainternacional.bsky.social sondainternacional.com/proyectos/el...
El agua se lo llevó todo - SONDA Internacional
El martes 29 de octubre, amplias zonas del sur y el este de España se vieron afectadas por lluvias torrenciales. Las precipitaciones y las riadas que provocaron daños en un total de 78 municipios, alg...
sondainternacional.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:40 AM
El agua se lo llevó todo. Quienes sobrevivieron a la riada en Valencia han quedado marcados por el recuerdo. Reportaje colectivo sobre las personas supervivientes de la #dana #Valencia en @sondainternacional.bsky.social sondainternacional.com/proyectos/el...
Reposted by Roberto García-Roa
Más de 800 organizaciones sociales y medioambientales firman un manifiesto de apoyo al científico Fernando Valladares, investigador del CSIC, amenazado en redes sociales tras la dana
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
Más de 800 organizaciones sociales y medioambientales firman un manifiesto de apoyo al científico Fernando Valladares
El escrito defiende al investigador del CSIC, amenazado en redes sociales tras la dana que arrasó Valencia
elpais.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Más de 800 organizaciones sociales y medioambientales firman un manifiesto de apoyo al científico Fernando Valladares, investigador del CSIC, amenazado en redes sociales tras la dana
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...